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Gob
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Zeta Jones is mad..

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Catherine Zeta Jones has received treatment for bipolar disorder after dealing with the stress of her husband's battle with throat cancer.

Zeta Jones, 41, made a decision to check into a "mental health facility" for a brief stay, said her publicist.

Michael Douglas, who was diagnosed last year, said in January his tumour had gone and he was beating the disease.

Last September, Zeta Jones said she was "furious" that doctors failed to detect the cancer earlier.

Bipolar, also known as manic depression, causes severe mood swings, that usually last several weeks or months.

Zeta Jones's publicist Cece Yorke said the actress sought treatment for the condition following the stress of her husband's cancer fight.

"After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her bipolar II disorder," said Yorke.

"She's feeling great and looking forward to starting work this week on her two upcoming films."

It is unclear when Zeta Jones, who is from Swansea, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder or where she received treatment.

Shortly after her husband was diagnosed with cancer, the actress revealed she was "furious" that doctors failed to detect the disease earlier.

In an interview with People magazine last September, she said: "He sought every option and nothing was found. I knew something was up. He knew something was up."

"It makes me furious they didn't detect it earlier," she added.

The star, who won an Oscar for her role in Chicago, was made a CBE by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in February.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13073676
Bipolar II disorder is a bipolar spectrum disorder characterized by at least one hypomanic episode and at least one major depressive episode; with this disorder, depressive episodes are more frequent and more intense than manic episodes. It is believed to be under-diagnosed because hypomanic behavior often presents as incredibly high-functioning behavior. Those with Bipolar II are at highest risk of suicide among the Bipolar spectrum. Hypomania in Bipolar II may manifest itself in disorganized racing thoughts, irritability, anxiety, insomnia, or all of the above combined. This makes it very difficult to distinguish from depression, since hypomania is often regarded as an elation of mood, however, the reverse is often true in those with Bipolar II. Moods that oscillate in the depressive spectrum is common, and very rarely does one with Bipolar II experience hypomanic euphoria, if at all. Indeed, to a physician or psychologist specializing in mood disorders, highly confident ambition might appear to be symptomatic of hypomania only if that individual's goals are viewed as unrealistic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_II_disorder
The trouble is for her that if this persists most of the the medications used to treat it leave teh patient with "flattened affect" lack of reactivity, flat moods, lethargy and weight gain. Not what a gorgeous actress needs at all.
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These Welsh birds, eh. Tch!

Actually it isn't just gorgeous actresses that can do without bipolar disorder. I would say it is everyone.
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Well that's true, but in her profession the mandatory ability to emote and express and contrive appearances would be killed stone dead by something like Seroquel, thus putting her out of work. Others may be able to get along working while taking meds, most do, but for actors, no way hose.
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So she's learned to emote has she?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?

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Heh.

Gob reckons she did her best "emoting" work in Entrapment.
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That was an amazing movie!
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So he means emote as in to get 'em-ote (out)...

I see...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?

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Anywa, "contriving" appearances is also hard when you Botox your forehead. Perhaps she ought to give that a miss too!

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Sean wrote:So she's learned to emote has she?

I wouldn't mind finding out...
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Well, they had to do something to keep themselves in the tabloids.

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Head and neck cancers, very bad. Aggressive, bad prognosis. Rarely 'good outcomes'.

And she's mad at the DOCTORS who didn't make him smoke and drink or produce the clouds of pollution he breathed in.

Right.


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